Why are my cooling pipes bursting?

[Ash//Fox]

The temperature of my water reservoir is about 85 and I was going to set up a little industrial room that would use it as cooling so I set up a pump to pipe it up a few dozen tiles into a cold biome, then I set a little zig zag of radiant gold pipes hoping it would chill the water off but now the pipes are constantly getting cold damage.

Something I'm doing wrong?

[snuggleform]

If a liquid freezes inside a pipe, then it will damage the pipe that is holding it. You may wish to spend a minute or two using the plumbing overlay going on 1 x speed and hovering over sections of the pipe that are cold and tracing where the water or whatever liquid is becoming too cold in the pipes.

[Ash//Fox]

Originally posted by wsc150:

If a liquid freezes inside a pipe, then it will damage the pipe that is holding it. You may wish to spend a minute or two using the plumbing overlay going on 1 x speed and hovering over sections of the pipe that are cold and tracing where the water or whatever liquid is becoming too cold in the pipes.

The water seems to be flowing without stopping, I was concerned that the pipes might freeze up and block but the vent back in my reservoir is spitting out the return water too.

[snuggleform]

No no no, don't look at whether the water is flowing or not, look at the temperature and find out where the cold sections of water are coming from. Specifically you're looking for sections of the pipe where the water is going below 0. You're going to have to heat them up a bit somehow if you want to avoid constant repairing. Maybe I worded it poorly or the game doesn't behave intuitively but to repeat: the point is examine for the quantitiatve temperature where it's cold/damaged, figure out how to heat those sections.

[L37]

Radiant pipe is "too good" probably. It has insane heat exchange and probably freezes when touching any cold p-water in cold biome. It is much more practical to use regular pipes...

[madcow]

OP, use automation if you want to prevent cold damage. Use a temp sensor attached to a cutoff valve to redirect it if the water going IN is too cold before it freezes.

You want to prevent cold water sitting in a cold area as it will just get colder.